react-native-jw-media-player-applicaster

React-native Android/iOS plugin for JWPlayer SDK (https://www.jwplayer.com/)

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README

react-native-jw-media-player

A react-native bridge for JWPlayer native SDK's

sample

Getting started

npm i react-native-jw-media-player --save

Mostly automatic installation

Since React Native 0.60 and higher, autolinking makes the installation process simpler.

On iOS you have to run cd ios/ && pod install.

On Android the package is automatically linked.

Using React Native Link (React Native 0.59 and lower)

Link module with

$ react-native link react-native-jw-media-player

Then add SDK dependencies:

Add dependencies

iOS dependencies

Follow official instructions iOS sdk installation for installation via Cocoapods (only supported, other way wasn't tested).

Add pod 'JWPlayer-SDK', '~> 3.5.0' to your Podfile. Then run pod install from your ios directory.

In your info.plist properties file, create a string entry named JWPlayerKey, and set its value to be your JW Player Beta license key. Make sure you enter this string exactly as you received it from JW Player, or as it appears in your JW Player Dashboard. The string is case-sensitive.

Android dependencies

Follow official instructions Android sdk installation

Insert the following lines inside the allProjects.dependencies block in android/build.gradle:

maven{
    url 'https://mvn.jwplayer.com/content/repositories/releases/'
}

As so

allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        maven {
            // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
            url("$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android")
        }
        maven {
            // Android JSC is installed from npm
            url("$rootDir/../node_modules/jsc-android/dist")
        }

        google()
        jcenter()
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
        // Add these lines
        maven{
            url 'https://mvn.jwplayer.com/content/repositories/releases/'
        }
    }
}

Add to AndroidManifest.xml in the Application tag above the Activity tag:

<meta-data
    android:name="JW_LICENSE_KEY"
    android:value="<API_KEY_FOUND_IN_JW_DASHBOARD>" />

... and these lines (This is needed for the controls bar in notification center).

<receiver android:name="androidx.media.session.MediaButtonReceiver">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MEDIA_BUTTON" />
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>
<service
    android:name="com.appgoalz.rnjwplayer.MediaPlaybackService"
    android:exported="false">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MEDIA_BUTTON" />
    </intent-filter>
</service>

and this line to the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle (also needed for the controls bar in notification center).

implementation 'androidx.media:media:1.1.0'

JW uses some of google services in their sdk so if you get an error about any missing google services (e.g. ERROR: Failed to resolve: com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads-identifier:16.0.0) you can add this line to the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

api 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:+'

Manual installation

iOS

  1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click LibrariesAdd Files to [your project's name]
  2. Go to node_modulesreact-native-jwplayer and add RNJWPlayer.xcodeproj
  3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNJWPlayer.a to your project's Build PhasesLink Binary With Libraries
  4. Add dependencies
  5. Run your project (Cmd+R)<

Android

  1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainApplication.java
  • Add import net.gamesofton.rnjwplayer.RNJWPlayerPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
  • Add new RNJWPlayerPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method
  1. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:
     include ':react-native-jwplayer'
     project(':react-native-jwplayer').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-jwplayer/android')
    
  2. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:
     implementation project(':react-native-jwplayer')
    
  3. Add dependencies

Usage

...

import JWPlayer from 'react-native-jw-media-player';

...

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
  },
  player: {
    flex: 1,
  },
});

...

const playlistItem = {
  title: 'Track',
  mediaId: -1,
  image: 'http://image.com/image.png',
  desc: 'My beautiful track',
  time: 0,
  file: 'http://file.com/file.mp3',
  autostart: true,
  controls: true,
  repeat: false,
  displayDescription: true,
  displayTitle: true
}

...

componentDidMount() {

  // Not Recommended - load the playlistItem into the player with loadPlaylistItem method
  /*
  setTimeout(() => {
    this.JWPlayer.loadPlaylistItem(playlistItem);
    
    // for playlist
    // const playlist = [playlistItem, playlistItem]
    // this.JWPlayer.loadPlaylist(playlistItem);
  }, 100)
  */
}

...

render() {

...

<View style={styles.container}>
  <JWPlayer
    ref={p => (this.JWPlayer = p)}
    style={styles.player}
    playlistItem={playlistItem} // Recommended - pass the playlistItem as a prop into the player
    // playlist={[playlistItem]}
    onBeforePlay={() => this.onBeforePlay()}
    onPlay={() => this.onPlay()}
    onPause={() => this.onPause()}
    onIdle={() => console.log("onIdle")}
    onPlaylistItem={event => this.onPlaylistItem(event)}
    onSetupPlayerError={event => this.onPlayerError(event)}
    onPlayerError={event => this.onPlayerError(event)}
    onBuffer={() => this.onBuffer()}
    onTime={event => this.onTime(event)}
    onFullScreen={() => this.onFullScreen()}
    onFullScreenExit={() => this.onFullScreenExit()}
  />
</View>

...

}

Run example project

For running example project:

  1. Checkout this repository.
  2. Go to Example directory and run yarn or npm i
  3. Go to Example/ios and install Pods with pod install
  4. Open demoJWPlayer.xcworkspace with XCode.
  5. Add your iOS api key for JWPlayer into Info.plist
PlaylistItem
Prop Description Type
mediaId The JW media id. Int
file The url of the file to play. String
title The title of the track. String
image The url of the player thumbnail. String
autostart Should the track auto start. Boolean
time should the player seek to a certain second. Int
desc Description of the track. String
controls Should the control buttons show. Boolean
repeat Should the track repeat. Boolean
displayDescription Should the player show the description. Boolean
displayTitle Should the player show the title. Boolean

Available props

Prop Description Type
mediaId The JW media id. Int
file The url of the file to play. String
title The title of the track. String
image The url of the player thumbnail. String
autostart Should the track auto start. Boolean
time should the player seek to a certain second. Int
desc Description of the track. String
controls Should the control buttons show. Boolean
repeat Should the track repeat. Boolean
displayDescription Should the player show the description. Boolean
displayTitle Should the player show the title. Boolean
playlistItem An object of playlistItem shape. PlaylistItem
playlist An array of playlistItems. [playlistItem] see PlaylistItem]
nextUpDisplay Should the player show the next up item in a playlist. Boolean
playerStyle Name of css file you put in the Main Bundle for you custom style. See below Custom-style section. String
colors Object with colors in hex format (without hashtag), for the icons and progress bar See below Colors section. Object
nativeFullScreen When this is true the player will go into full screen on the native layer automatically without the need to manage the full screen request in js onFullScreen callback Boolean
fullScreenOnLandscape When this is true the player will go into full screen on rotate of phone to landscape Boolean
landscapeOnFullScreen When this is true the player will go into landscape orientation when on full screen Boolean
portraitOnExitFullScreen Available on Android. When this is true the player will go into portrait orientation when exiting full screen Boolean
exitFullScreenOnPortrait Available on Android. When this is true the player will exit full screen when the phone goes into portrait Boolean

Available methods

Func Description Argument
seekTo Tells the player to seek to position, use in onPlaylistItem callback so player finishes buffering file. Int
play Starts playing. none
pause Pauses playing. none
stop Stops the player completely. none
state Returns the current state of the player idle, buffering, playing, paused. none
position Returns promise that then returns the current position of the player in seconds. none
toggleSpeed Toggles the player speed one of 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0. none
setPlaylistIndex Sets the current playing item in the loaded playlist. Int
setControls Sets the display of the control buttons on the player. Boolean
loadPlaylist Loads a playlist. (Using this function before the player has finished initializing may result in assert crash or blank screen, put in a timeout to make sure JWPlayer is mounted). [PlaylistItems]
loadPlaylistItem Loads a playlist item. (Using this function before the player has finished initializing may result in assert crash or blank screen, put in a timeout to make sure JWPlayer is mounted). PlaylistItem

Available callbacks

Func Description Argument
onPlaylist A new playlist is loaded. [playlistItem] see PlaylistItem
onPlayerReady The player has finished setting up and is ready to play. none
onBeforePlay Right before playing. none
onBeforeComplete Right before playing completed and is starting to play. none
onPlay Player started playing. none
onPause Player paused playing. none
onSetupPlayerError Player faced and error while setting up the player. {error: String}
onPlayerError Player faced an error after setting up the player but when attempting to start playing. {error: String}
onBuffer The player is buffering. none
onTime Interval callback for every millisecond playing. {time: double, duration: double}
onFullScreen User clicked on the fullscreen icon. Use this to resize the container view for the player. (Make use of https://github.com/yamill/react-native-orientation for fullscreen mode) none
onFullScreenExit User clicked on the fullscreen icon to exit. none
onPlaylistItem When starting to play a playlist item. JW type playlist item see docs ios, android contains additional index of current playing item in playlist 0 for default
Custom-style

For setting a custom style on the player:

  1. Check out the JW player guide for adding a custom css file on your player.

  2. Put your custom css file in the root folder of your native files.

  3. Add the prop playerStyle to the player and set to the name of your css file without the .css file type e.g. playerStyle={'myCssFile'}.

  4. build & run.

Colors

To set the colors of icons and progress bar pass to the player a prop as such.

Note: It is expected to pass the colors in hex format without the hashtag example for white FFFFFF.

colors: PropTypes.shape({
  icons: PropTypes.string,
  timeslider: PropTypes.shape({
    progress: PropTypes.string,
    rail: PropTypes.string
  })
})

Background Audio

This package supports Background audio sessions just follow the jwplayer docs for background session.

Here for Android https://developer.jwplayer.com/sdk/android/docs/developer-guide/interaction/audio/ although this package handles background audio playing in android as is and you shouldn't have to make any additional changes.

Here for iOS https://developer.jwplayer.com/sdk/ios/docs/developer-guide/embedding/features/ under Background Audio section.

You need to edit the AppDelegate.h file in iOS Here is a complete example - iOS:

 #import <AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h>
 #import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

 NSString* const AudioInterruptionsDidStart = @"AudioInterruptionsStarted";
 NSString* const AudioInterruptionsDidEnd = @"AudioInterruptionsEnded";

 @implementation AppDelegate

-(BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary 
 *)launchOptions
 {
   AVAudioSession *audioSession = [AVAudioSession sharedInstance];
  
   [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver: self
                                           selector: @selector(audioSessionInterrupted:)
                                               name: AVAudioSessionInterruptionNotification
                                             object: audioSession];
  
   NSError *setCategoryError = nil;
   BOOL success = [audioSession setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback 
 error:&setCategoryError];
  
   NSError *activationError = nil;
   success = [audioSession setActive:YES error:&activationError];
 }

 -(void)audioSessionInterrupted:(NSNotification*)note
 {
   if ([note.name isEqualToString:AVAudioSessionInterruptionNotification]) {
     NSLog(@"Interruption notification");

  if ([[note.userInfo valueForKey:AVAudioSessionInterruptionTypeKey] isEqualToNumber:[NSNumber 
 numberWithInt:AVAudioSessionInterruptionTypeBegan]]) {
      [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:AudioInterruptionsDidStart object:self 
 userInfo:nil];
     } else {
       [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:AudioInterruptionsDidEnd object:self 
 userInfo:nil];
   }
  }
}